Elaine
Created by Shakespeare Wood
Date: 1862
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: statue
Material: stone - marble
Technique: carved
Description: Marble statue
Notes: 'And thus they moved away; she stayed a minute,
Then made a sudden step to the gate; and there
Her bright hair, blown about the serious face,
Yet rosy, kindled with her brother's kiss,
Paused in the gateway, standing by the shield
In silence, while she watch'd their arms far off
Sparkle, until they dipp'd below the downs,
Then to her tower she climb'd, and took the shield,
There kept it, and so lived in fantasy' (Tennyson, Idylls of the King)
Citing this record
'Elaine', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib2_1202517124, accessed 04 Oct 2023]
